Introducing Bon Appétit's specialty “Cook the Cover” Holiday Issue.
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You know the scene: double-parked grocery carts clogging every aisle; children screaming for candy as harried parents fight over the last organic sweet potato; check-out lines winding all the way to the back of the supermarket. Then there’s the homebound schlep: packing the car for another gas-guzzling trip, or carrying your groceries however many icy blocks back to your walk-up apartment. Did that bag just rip? It did, and there go the eggs.
It’s enough to make even the most hopeful home chef decide to throw in the towel and cancel the holiday feast. But wait! There’s another way.
As Bon Appétit food editors know firsthand, grocery shopping is the least fun part of cooking—and that’s why we’ve teamed up with DoorDash to produce a holiday cookie recipe with ingredients ready to be delivered at the tap of a screen. That’s right, fellow home chefs: This holiday season, you can bake up a batch of these oh-so-festive Peppermint Bark Cookie cover stars (and more!) without ever leaving the comfort of your home.
Best of all, we're offering a special discount code for new users: Get 40% off your first DoorDash grocery order with code 40FRESH. Up to $40 off orders $35+ through 12/31/2025. (Terms apply.)
The DoorDash app offers access to thousands of grocery stores nationwide, making ingredient-sourcing for your next cooking project as easy as ordering a pizza. Your neighborhood store is likely on the app already, meaning you can skip the trip entirely and get the finest produce, proteins, packaged foods, and just about anything else you can imagine delivered straight to your door with quality guaranteed or your money back! (Terms apply.)
All you have to do is focus on the fun part: cooking.
Though we use DoorDash weekly for all our regular ingredient shopping, we find the app especially helpful during the holidays, when the supermarket is more crowded than ever and the house is full of hungry relatives waiting for special occasion-level feasts.
That’s why we collaborated with DoorDash to provide not just one but six brand new holiday-ready recipes with ingredient lists pre-loaded and ready to purchase with a tap. From crowd-pleasing Pigs in a Blanket, to Mushroom Au Poivre, to those ooey-gooey Peppermint Bark Cookies you see on our cover, we’ve got just about everything you need to cook up the holiday feast of your dreams—without ever entering a supermarket.
But first, check out the video below to see how recipe creator Jesse Szewczyk bakes up a mouthwatering batch of the cookie of the year—from the browning of butter (crucial for getting that deep, nutty flavor that all the best baked goods have), to the crushing of candy canes (nothing screams festive like those classic red-and-white stripes), to the placement of each irregularly-shaped slab of melty white chocolate (the more imperfect the better!). Szewczyk, the award-winning author of best-selling baking bible Cookies: The New Classics, is our resident cookie expert, and your personal guide to impressing even your grinchiest friends and family members at this year’s holiday cookie swap.
So put on your cozy home cooking attire, load up your virtual cart, and let DoorDash bring the ingredients to you. Whether you’re looking to go big for the holidays, or just stock up for your weekly shop, DoorDash has you covered. Let's do this!
Click to shop six new Bon Appétit holiday-inspired recipes below.
